I didn't want to kiss you goodbye — that was the trouble — I wanted to kiss you good night — and there's a lot of difference.

where a man feels at home, outside of where he’s born, is where he’s meant to go.

Find the best writers, pay them to write, and avoid typos at all costs.

That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.

Write drunk; edit sober.

Always stop for the day while you still know what will happen next.

The hardest thing to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings. First you have to know the subject; then you have to know how to write. Both take a lifetime to learn, and anybody is cheating who takes politics as a way out. All the outs are too easy, and the thing itself is too hard to do.